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Summer has come and with it the new baby and her second season of life. I had imagined all these lovely summer plans, sitting outside in a park under a shady tree, a sleepy baby, an iced coffee, journ...

More cat news around here, as we continue to funnel money directly into our local vet clinic. Chicken came home with a claw missing and after a while it got infected, so Jon had to bring him in. He ca...

We got in these very exciting Traveler’s Notebook Limited Edition Sets, and as is usual, I took a few photos, but by the time I got around to a blog post they were all sold out. These ones actually sol...

Our next Letter Writing Club is happening Monday, August 8, from 5 to 7, and I am somewhat aghast that unfortunately I will not be making it. A somewhat impromptu and spontaneous serendipity has meant...

It took us ages and ages and ages to finally get this book in! For many reasons, mostly having to do with my own disorganization. We are a stationery shop that also happens to sell books, and because ...

These two cats. There is nothing better than two cats, that is the good stuff of life. What is a single cat but a lonely traveler along the dusty road? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend th...

We ran our first Letter Writing Club earlier this week, and it was lovely.

Everyone on the team (or maybe just me?) was a bit nervous, as we hadn’t run one of these in ages. Since our last event, years...

In yet another in a series of escalating and questionable life choices (I recently bought some bubble tea popsicles), I had a package of late night ramen while two babies slept behind me. Coincidental...

The Caran d’Ache 849is iconic in the stationery market, making that leap from stationery nerds futzing over inscrutable details into the trendy design world. It’s metal with a slim profile, available ...

On Friday, the shop was closed for the Canada Day statutory holiday, and I have now become a visitor to my own stationery realm. We packed up the whole zoo (minus the furry animals), and took over whi...